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~reviewer Dawn Myers
"Karen Wiesner composes excellent well-written drama that keeps the reader on the edge-of-the-seat, spellbound. She never disappoints and every story is cleverly constructed. The way she pens these realistic characters makes for an extraordinary read. She puts the reader in the center of the action with all the riveting moments of suspense, jeopardy and heartwarming romance that reaches out and touches the reader. I love the way she spins her stories and characters, leaving the audience quite satisfied. She is so skilled in her talent that I always look forward to reading her stories."
~Linda L., reviewer for The Romance Studio
"If you're seeking a suspenseful story which throws you into the heart of the matter from the first sentence, and keeps you turning the pages long after your disbelief is suspended and you've forgotten you are reading the story, not living it, then pick up a Karen Wiesner book! Karen is an author who has a seemingly unlimited imagination for character and plot, and I plan to read everything she writes. Thankfully she is quite prolific. This is an author never to be missed that I can consistently recommend. May she continue with her writing career for many decades to come!"
~reviewer Annie for eCataromance and EuroReviews
"Karen Wiesner seems to keep getting better and better. The author and I seem to be in complete sync." ~reviewer Dee Dailey for The Romance Studio
"Karen Wiesner gets inside the minds of her audience. She's a sure shot to entertain her audience. As always she writes must-read for fans that will enhance her deserved reputation as one of the sub-genre's consistent best. Newcomers will want to read the previous saga as these are some of the best novels around."
~reviewer Harriet Klausner
"[This] author seems to get better with each tale she writes. Karen Wiesner has one of the most fertile imaginations I have ever seen."
~reviewer Detra Fitch
"Karen Wiesner, the new voice of women's fiction, proves yet again that she's a top-notch storyteller. No one explores the complexities of relationships and the yearnings of woman's heart better than she does. I've never seen a writer more adept at capturing the emotional complexities of the human experience. Her love stories are bold, fearless, and unforgettable. The world of women's fiction is a better place because Ms. Wiesner is in it."
~author Michele Bardsley
Karen Wiesner is an accomplished author with 74 titles published in the past 12 years, which have been nominated/won 103 awards, and 23 more releases contracted for spanning many categories and formats.
Karen's Incognito Series (romantic action/adventure/suspenses) is published by Whiskey Creek Press. The following are now available: NO ORDINARY LOVE, UNTIL DEATH DO US PART, BOUNTY ON THE REBEL'S HEART, DEAD DROP, UNDER THE SPELL, RENEGADE'S ROSE, UNDERCOVER ANGEL, HARD TO HANDLE, DANCE IN SHADOWS, and HYPNOTIZED. Upcoming releases include: MIND GAMES (October 2010) and DARK APPROACH (March 2011). Also available are Incognito Series "Megabooks", each containing three full novels in the series. The first three volumes are now available. The fourth and final will be available in 2011. The Incognito Series has won and/or finaled in FTHRW's Lories' Best Proposal and Best Publishing contests, the L-Edit Slip contest, EPIC's EPPIE Award, The Romance Studio's Sweetheart and CAPA Awards, Ecataromance's Reviewer's Choice Award, Fallen Angel Reviews' Recommended Read Award, The Long and Short of It's (LASR) Best Romance of the Year Award and their highest review rating--Best Book, Manic Readers' featured review status, and RT Book Reviews' Top Pick review award. The series has also received 5 star reviews from The Romance Studio, Fallen Angel Reviews, LASR, ReviewYourBook.com, Dark Diva Reviews, as well 4 1/2 stars from RT Book Reviews. Karen designed all the Incognito Series covers herself. Click on the Incognito Series button above for more information.
Karen's new inspirational romantic mystery trilogy is called Denim Blues Mysteries and is published by Whiskey Creek Press. The first book in the trilogy, RETIRED AND ON THE ROCKS, is available now. LOVE IS BLIND...AND IT DON'T PAY THE BILLS EITHER (Book 2) will be released January 2011 and SOULS ON (B)ORING STREET (Book 3) will come out June 2011. Karen designed all the Incognito Series covers herself. Click on the Denim Blues Mysteries button above for more information.
Karen has also written police procedural mysteries, the Falcon's Bend Series, with award-winning author Chris Spindler of Auenwald, Germany. The following are available now: DEGREES OF SEPARATION, TEARS ON STONE, THE FIFTEENTH LETTER, ROMANTIC NOTIONS, AND FALCON'S BEND CASE FILES, Volumes I and II. The Falcon’s Bend Series has won and/or finaled for The Romance Studio’s Sweetheart Award, the L-Edit Slip contest, RT Book Reviews Top Pick review award and EPIC’s EPPIE Award. The series has also received 5 star reviews from The Romance Studio, Huntress Reviews, Dark Angel Reviews, and Coffee Time Romance, as well as 4 1/2 stars from RT Book Reviews. Karen designed all the covers and the series logo. Click the Falcon's Bend Series button above for more information.
Karen's inspirational romantic suspense, THE BLOODMOON CURSE (a 2006 Ecataromance Reviewer's Choice Award nominee, a 2006 Dream Ream Award finalist, a Fallen Angel Reviews Recommended Read, as well as the recipient of multiple 5 star reviews), is published by Samhain Publishing. Upcoming inspirational romances include CLUMSY GIRL’S GUIDE TO FALLING IN LOVE (romantic comedy/Chick-lit, coming December 2012) and MICHAEL’S ANGEL (romantic suspense, coming July 2013) both from Whiskey Creek Press. Click the Other Romantic Fiction button above to find out more.
Karen’s inspirational romance series, Family Heirlooms, will be published and reissued by Whiskey Creek Press, including: GLASS ANGELS, Book 4 (February 2011), BABY, BABY (Book 1, reissue coming April 2011), SHADOW BOXING (Book 2, reissue coming May 2011), FOOLISH GAMES (Book 3, reissue coming July 2011), SHARDS OF ASHLEY, Book 5 (October 2011), and WORLDS COLLIDE, Book 6 (March 2012). The Family Heirlooms Series has won and/or finaled for The Romance Studio’s Sweetheart and CAPA Awards, Ecataromance Reviewer’s Choice Award, and WDRF's Top Read of Excellence, their highest review rating. SHADOW BOXING took 1st place in Love Romances & More 2010 Golden Rose Awards (contemporary romance category). FOOLISH GAMES placed 2nd in the inspirational category of the 2010 Lories Best Published contest. For more information about this series, click on the Family Heirlooms Series button above.
Karen's series' with Hard Shell Word Factory include the Gypsy Road Series, the Angelfire Trilogy, and Dare to Love Series (all contemporary romances). Her fiction from Hard Shell has been nominated for multiple RT Reviewer's Choice Awards, the Daphne du Maurier Award, FTHRW's The Lories Best Published Contest, and several EPIC Awards. Click on the Romantic Fiction button above for more information.
Uncial Press has electronically published Karen’s Wounded Warriors Series, reissuing RELUCTANT HEARTS (Book 1), WAITING FOR AN ECLIPSE (Book 2), MIRROR MIRROR (Book 3), and WAYWARD ANGELS (Book 4). UNTIL IT'S GONE (Book 5) and WHITE RAINBOW, the sixth and final book in the series, are now available from Uncial. Trade paperback versions are also available for each book in the series. Karen designed the new covers for the series. Click on the Wounded Warriors Series button above for more information.
Karen's first writing reference title with Writer's Digest Books, FIRST DRAFT IN 30 DAYS, is a bestseller available wherever writing reference titles are sold. Writer's Digest Book Club released it as a Main Selection in March 2005. You can find more information and the bonus website advertised in the book by clicking on the First Draft in 30 Days button. Karen's second release from Writer's Digest Books was FROM FIRST DRAFT TO FINISHED NOVEL {A Writer's Guide to Cohesive Story Building}, available now. Also available is the FROM FIRST DRAFT TO FINISHED NOVEL bundle, which contains both of Karen's Writer's Digest Books with the Writer's Digest Weekly Planner. Click on the Nonfiction button above for more information about these books.
Karen is also the author of ELECTRONIC PUBLISHING The Definitive Guide {The Most
Complete Reference to Non-Subsidy E-Publishing
and WEAVE YOUR WEB {The Promotional Companion to ELECTRONIC PUBLISHING The Definitive Guide. The Guide was a finalist for the 2000 EPPIE Award and won the 2001 EPPIE for Best Non-fiction. It was excerpted in the 2001 Writers Digest Novel & Short Story Market and made the 2001 Inscriptions' Books of the Year list. eBooks N' Bytes chose the Guide to be their first winner of the eBooks N' Bytes Award of Excellence for Epublishing Book of the Year (2002). The Guide was also a finalist in the 2002 Indie Awards. WEAVE YOUR WEB was a 2004 EPPIE finalist. Please note that Karen has discontinued her e-publishing and author promotion books and both are currently unavailable.
THE POWER OF PROMOTIONAL GROUPS details how published authors can set up a promotional group (like Karen's own, Jewels of the Quill). The reference book is available now in electronic formats from Twilight Times Books. THE POWER OF PROMOTIONAL GROUPS was a 2009 EPPIE Award finalist. Click on the Nonfiction button above for more information.
Karen's first book of poetry was released in October 2001. SOUL BLEEDS The Dark
Poetry and Other Wanderings of K.S. Wiesner finaled in the 2002 EPPIE Awards. Click on the
Poetry button above for more information.
Karen also writes children's books under the pen name Karen Sue Wiesner for Writer's Exchange E-Publishing.
Releases include:
Click on the Children's
Books button above for more information.
Karen is the founding member of Jewels of the Quill www.JewelsoftheQuill.com, a promotional
group of women authors who write in a variety of genres. The group has monthly spotlights
and giveaways at their website, a newsletter with over 1000 subscribers, and was featured in the September 2003 issue of RT Book Reviews. Jewels of the Quill produced two group anthologies per year published by Whiskey Creek Press from 2005-2011, including:
Karen edited TALES FROM THE TREASURE TROVE, Volume I, and co-edited each subsequent group anthology. She also designed all the Jewels of the Quill book covers. Karen has contributed a novella to each anthology the group has done from the very first. Click on the Romantic Fiction or Jewels of the Quill buttons for more information.
In addition, Karen's Jewels of the Quill anthology stories have been and will be packaged in the following dame collections published by Whiskey Creek Press:
Click on the Romantic Fiction, Jewels of the Quill, or series buttons for more information.
Karen has won the Inscriptions Engraver Award for best on-line columnist two years
in a row, the Year 2000 for eXcellence in E-publishing Award: E-author from ebookadvisor, was a two
time recipient of the E-Pub Ambassador Award, and was a two time recipient of The Simply Charming
Award for outstanding promotion of e-books. She was also nominated for the 2000 EPIC Florence Moyer
Service Award.
Karen is a member of
Sisters in Crime Internet Chapter,
Infinite Worlds of Fantasy Authors, and World Romance
Writers.
In addition to writing, Karen enjoys designing websites and graphics for her pages.
Currently, she designs and maintains her own site, children's author Linda Derkez's website, and the
Jewels of the Quill website. Karen
also enjoys designing cover art and logos for books. You can view
her designs by clicking on the Cover Design button above.
Karen enthusiastically welcomes letters from her fans. Write to her at KarensQuill-owner@yahoogroups.com or PO Box 118,
Black River Falls, WI 54615. If you
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Paper Tiger (Kaleidoscope Series, Book 5) by Karen Wiesner
HALLOWEEN TREASURES
A Jewels of the Quill Halloween Anthology
Romantic Suspense Novella
Whiskey Creek Press
Coming September 2010 in trade paperback and electronic formats
MIND GAMES, Book 11 of the Incognito Series
Karen Wiesner
Romantic Action/Adventure
Whiskey Creek Press
Coming October 2010 in trade paperback and electronic formats
KALEIDOSCOPE SERIES
including Perfect Cadence (Book 1), In Cahoots With Cupid (Book 2), Behind Amethyst Eyes (Book 3), Jordana's Chair (Book 4), Paper Tigers (Book 5), plus 2 bonus stories in the series never before published: Cabin Fever (Book 6) and The Longest Night (Book 7)
Karen Wiesner
Contemporary Romance Novella Collection
Whiskey Creek
Press
Coming December 2010 in trade paperback and electronic formats
LOVE IS BLIND...AND IT DON'T PAY THE BILLS EITHER, Book 2 of the Denim Blues Mysteries Trilogy
Karen Wiesner
Inspirational Romantic Mystery
Whiskey Creek
Press
Coming January 2011 in trade paperback and electronic formats
GLASS ANGELS, Book 4 of the Family Heirlooms Series
Karen Wiesner
Inspirational Romance
Whiskey Creek Press
Coming February 2011 in trade paperback and electronic formats
DARK APPROACH, Book 12 of the Incognito Series
Karen Wiesner
Romantic Action/Adventure
Whiskey Creek Press
Coming March 2011 in trade paperback and electronic formats
Moonlight Becomes You (Woodcutter's Grim Series, Book 4) by Karen Wiesner
Paranormal Romance Novella
in TALES FROM THE TREASURE TROVE, Volume
VII
A Jewels of the Quill
Anthology
Whiskey Creek
Press
Coming March 2011 in trade paperback and electronic formats
BABY, BABY, Book 1 of the Family Heirlooms Series reissue
Karen Wiesner
Inspirational Romance
Whiskey Creek Press
Coming April 2011 in trade paperback and electronic formats
SHADOW BOXING, Book 2 of the Family Heirlooms Series reissue
Karen Wiesner
Inspirational Romance
Whiskey Creek Press
Coming May 2011 in trade paperback and electronic formats
SOULS ON (B)ORING STREET, Book 3 of the Denim Blues Mysteries Trilogy
Karen Wiesner
Inspirational Romantic Mystery
Whiskey Creek
Press
Coming June 2011 in trade paperback and electronic formats
FOOLISH GAMES, Book 3 of the Family Heirlooms Series reissue
Karen Wiesner
Inspirational Romance
Whiskey Creek Press
Coming July 2011 in trade paperback and electronic formats
INCOGNITO SERIES MEGABOOK, Volume 4
including HYPNOTIZED (Book 10), MIND GAMES (Book 11), and DARK APPROACH (Book 12)
Karen Wiesner
Romantic Action/Adventure Suspense
Whiskey Creek
Press
Coming Summer 2011 in electronic formats
Wings of Love, Book 1 of the Cowboy Fever Series by Karen Wiesner
Contemporary Romance Novella
in CHRISTMAS GEMS
A Jewels of the Quill
Christmas Anthology
Whiskey Creek Press
Coming September 2011 in trade paperback and electronic formats
SHARDS OF ASHLEY, Book 5 of the Family Heirlooms Series
Karen Wiesner
Inspirational Romance
Whiskey Creek Press
Coming October 2011 in trade paperback and electronic formats
Bewitched (Woodcutter's Grim Series, Book 5) by Karen Wiesner
Paranormal Romance Novella
Whiskey Creek
Press
Coming January 2012 in electronic formats
WORLDS COLLIDE, Book 6 of the Family Heirlooms Series
Karen Wiesner
Inspirational Romance
Whiskey Creek Press
Coming March 2012 in trade paperback and electronic formats
Losses and Gains, Book 2 of the Cowboy Fever Series by Karen Wiesner
Contemporary Romance Novella
Whiskey Creek
Press
Coming May 2012 in electronic formats
One Night of Eternity (Woodcutter's Grim Series, Book 6) by Karen Wiesner
Paranormal Romance Novella
Whiskey Creek
Press
Coming July 2012 in electronic formats
WOODCUTTER’S GRIM SERIES—CLASSIC TALES OF HORROR RETOLD, Volume II
including Moonlight Becomes You (Book 4) plus 3 bonus stories in the series: Bewitched (Book 5), One Night of Eternity (Book 6), and Beauty is the Beast (Book 7)
Karen Wiesner
Paranormal Romance Novella Collection
Whiskey Creek
Press
Coming September 2012 in trade paperback and electronic formats
For Always, Book 3 of the Cowboy Fever Series by Karen Wiesner
Contemporary Romance Novella
Whiskey Creek
Press
Coming November 2012 in electronic formats
CLUMSY GIRL’S GUIDE TO FALLING IN LOVE by Karen Wiesner
Inspirational Romantic Comedy/Chick-lit
Whiskey Creek
Press
Coming December 2012 in trade paperback and electronic formats
Taming April, Book 4 of the Cowboy Fever Series by Karen Wiesner
Contemporary Romance Novella
Whiskey Creek
Press
Coming January 2013 in electronic formats
COWBOY FEVER SERIES
including Wings of Love(Book 1) plus 4 bonus stories in the series: Losses and Gains (Book 2), For Always (Book 3), Taming April (Book 4), and The Only One (Book 5)
Karen Wiesner
Contemporary Romance Novella Collection
Whiskey Creek
Press
Coming May 2013 in trade paperback and electronic formats
MICHAEL’S ANGEL by Karen Wiesner
Inspirational Romantic Suspense
Whiskey Creek
Press
Coming July 2013 in trade paperback and electronic formats
Beauty is the Beast (Woodcutter's Grim Series, Book 6) by Karen Wiesner
Paranormal Romance Novella
Whiskey Creek
Press
Coming September 2013 in electronic formats
THE DEEP, Book 8, A Woodcutter’s Grim Series Novel by Karen Wiesner
Romantic Paranormal Horror
Whiskey Creek
Press
Coming October 2013 in trade paperback and electronic formats
The Only One, Book 5 of the Cowboy Fever Series by Karen Wiesner
Contemporary Romance Novella
Whiskey Creek
Press
Coming November 2013 in electronic formats
DRIFTER’S HEART, Book 6, A Cowboy Fever Series Novel by Karen Wiesner
Contemporary Romance
Whiskey Creek
Press
Coming December 2013 in trade paperback and electronic formats
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